Harley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Harley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Harley: Recorded since 1986, it reached #45 in 2014, and it stood at #443 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
150times a registrar ranked it
40years from first to last
#45highest recorded position
23groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Harley's record

England and Wales registered 1,543 births with the name in 2012, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Moved 295 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
3 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#319
1997	#349
1998	#486
1999	#515
2000	#405
2001	#444
2002	#394
2003	#359
2004	#410
2005	#459
2006	#502
2007	#565
2008	#618
2009	#738
2010	#616
2011	#665
2012	#519
2013	#437
2014	#458
2015	#414
2016	#293
2017	#191
2018	#238
2019	#212
2020	#206
2021	#252
2022	#250
2023	#360
2024	#418

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in New Zealand in 12 of the 38 years from 1986 to 2023.

In 2024: #215 among girls in Scotland, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #418 among girls in England and Wales, #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1986–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1986
First recorded at #94 among boys in New Zealand in 1986 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #45 among boys in England and Wales, in 2014 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Harley appears in 8 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 22,095 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Boys, from 1986.

Harley across 8 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Harley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
New Zealand · Boys	#94 (1986)	#75 (1989)	#91 (2023)	12 of 38	663 (1986–2023)	71 (1989)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#323 (1990)	#181 (2014)	#509 (2025)	21 of 36	277 (1990–2025)	33 (2014)
England and Wales · Boys	#177 (1996)	#45 (2014)	#148 (2024)	29 of 29	22,095 (1996–2024)	1,543 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#319 (1996)	#191 (2017)	#418 (2024)	29 of 29	3,305 (1996–2024)	279 (2017)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#80 (1991)	#72 (1992)	#98 (2017)	7 of 27	759 (1991–2017)	126 (1992)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#219 (2004)	#90 (2017)	#278 (2024)	21 of 21	315 (2004–2024)	33 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#318 (2005)	#158 (2020)	#337 (2024)	14 of 20	83 (2005–2024)	12 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#798 (2011)	#168 (2020)	#443 (2025)	15 of 15	197 (2011–2025)	30 (2017)

Harley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Harley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	649	4 of 10	162
2000s	7,115	10 of 10	712
2010sbusiest	12,019	10 of 10	1,202
2020s	2,312	5 of 10	462

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 1,202 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 405, from 554 to 959.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Harley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #45 in England and Wales in 2014.

Harley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#418	102	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#148	356	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#360	117	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#136	396	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#250	191	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#119	465	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#252	191	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#115	501	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#206	239	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#97	594	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#212	232	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#77	771	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#238	211	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#64	1,011	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#191	279	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#53	1,246	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#293	169	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#55	1,083	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#414	107	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#52	1,175	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#458	96	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#45	1,303	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#437	96	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#49	1,275	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#519	82	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#46	1,543	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#665	59	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#55	1,308	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#616	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#57	1,304	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#738	49	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#56	1,290	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#618	60	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#63	1,135	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#565	64	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#69	1,091	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#502	75	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#68	1,092	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#459	80	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#70	959	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#410	89	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#102	554	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#359	103	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#145	312	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#394	84	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#145	284	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#444	69	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#169	212	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#405	78	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#183	186	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#515	56	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#224	136	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#486	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#192	172	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#349	96	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#211	155	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#319	111	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#177	186	High	Verified
2017	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
1995	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	male	#78	112	Insufficient	Not yet available
1993	New South Wales, Australia	male	#73	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	New South Wales, Australia	male	#72	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	male	#80	111	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#91	48	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#97	52	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#89	55	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#92	51	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#93	54	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#100	51	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	male	#91	58	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	male	#94	48	High	Verified
1991	New Zealand	male	#89	66	High	Verified
1989	New Zealand	male	#75	71	High	Verified
1988	New Zealand	male	#95	55	High	Verified
1986	New Zealand	male	#94	54	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#278	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#200	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#234	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#181	11	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#176	13	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#158	12	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#186	11	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#197	11	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#238	7	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#171	14	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#190	10	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#90	33	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#211	9	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#143	20	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#121	25	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#105	30	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#118	26	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#133	21	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#149	18	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#222	9	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#200	11	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#174	14	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#189	11	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#180	11	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#218	7	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#219	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#211	22	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#380	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#257	18	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#168	28	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#361	11	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#235	20	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#244	19	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#218	22	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#231	23	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#172	30	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#230	24	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#196	29	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#462	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#245	21	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#181	33	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#252	21	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	13	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	12	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#373	10	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#215	17	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#352	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1986 and 2025, ranked in 39 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #45, first reached in 2014.

It held a top-100 place in 26 years, 17 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,543 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

3 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1990, and 38 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Harlem · #1273, 22y
Harlen · #657, 19y
Harley-James · #1040, 18y
Harley-Jay · #1097, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Skye · #45, 37y
Jessie · #46, 42y
Amelie · #51, 35y
Cody · #37, 39y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Kayleigh · #45, 41y
Joe · #48, 36y
Kelsey · #48, 37y
Alana · #49, 46y

Harley was ranked #45 in England and Wales · Boys in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Harley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Harley without appearing here.

Harley moved ahead of

Sharon Compare
In 2016 they stood at #536 and #494 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2017 that had become #172 and #873.
Roger Compare
In 2016 they stood at #629 and #629 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #230 and #710.
Christine Compare
In 2024 they stood at #504 and #504 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #443 and #885.
Marianne Compare
In 2024 they stood at #504 and #441 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #443 and #885.

Moved ahead of Harley

Mathias Compare
In 2022 they stood at #380 and #779 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #770 and #396.
Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #359 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #410 and #155.
Emilie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #181 and #206 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #418 and #183.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #665 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #519 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Harley

Adam Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 while Adam went from #44 to #20.
Alexander Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 while Alexander went from #105 to #55.
Arthur Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 while Arthur went from #175 to #57.
Ben Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 while Ben went from #152 to #40.

Moved the same way as Harley

Aaron Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 and Aaron from #36 to #71.
Adrian Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 and Adrian from #67 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 and Alan from #19 to #232.
Andrew Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harley went from #323 to #509 and Andrew from #18 to #106.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #45 in England and Wales in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harley

Harley at a glance

What stands out in Harley's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harley across 8 official records

Harley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Harley

Harley and the names beside it

Harley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harley

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Moved the same way as Harley

Harley at a glance

What stands out in Harley's record

Harley across 8 official records

Harley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Harley

Harley and the names beside it

Harley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harley

Moved the opposite way to Harley

Moved the same way as Harley